Physician burnout was a significant issue even before the pandemic, with about 79% of physicians reporting burnout. In the fall of 2020, 69% reported depression and "a very alarming figure" of 13% reported having thoughts ofsuicide, Howard said. Women in healthcare jobs are especially vulnerabl...
Dr. was italicized above to emphasize that Fauci has been treating papers not people for his whole four-decade career. Nonetheless, he had the temerity to dictate to the real world, in-the-trenches clinical physicians, what they should do and what they cannot do for their patients. By sneak...
Along with 237 other scientists and physicians, they warned that ... airborne spread of SARS-CoV-2 would undermine even the most vigorous testing, tracing, and social distancing efforts. ... [Linsey Marr] started talking to Kimberly Prather, an atmospheric chemist at UC San Diego, who had ...
A group of scientists and physicians charge that the CDC’s current guidance on masking might not be enough to meet the threat of COVID-19 variants.
As trust in federal health agencies haswitheredover the last few months, a group of Black physicians has been working on an antidote: creating their own expert task force to independently vet regulators’ decisions about Covid-19 drugs and vaccines as well as government recommendations for curbing...
It is the first time smokers have ever been targeted for vaccination. The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended that all smokers aged 19 years through 64 years be vaccinated with the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine. Additionally, the panel urged that physicians ...
"we are reminding physicians to talk with their patients about the health risks associated with not being vaccinated and to make a strong recommendation for vaccinations, unless medically inadvisable," said jesse m. ehrenfeld, president of the u.s. doctors' body. measles is one of the most ...
And so,PrEPis not the answer. Black Americans know, and they say, “What we really need is jobs. We need health care, which is still not a fundamental right of U.S. citizenship. We don’t have access to it.” PrEP is something we need. But we need a whole other option. Other...
It is not clear what caused the investigators' symptoms -- whether chemical exposure or something else, such as fatigue. But the team, some of whom are officers and physicians in the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service, found it suspicious that they became ill at the same time and with the...
“As the first hospital system in the country to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for employees and physicians, we are deeply disappointed in the governor’s order that tries to prohibit such mandates,” Boom said in a statement, noting that the system’s employees and physicians are 100...